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Academic Achievements
Team member Ryan won the 2025 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award; Wenbin placed first in the 2025 YinzOR Best Poster Competition; Zekai's team secured third place out of 44 in the 2025 PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge; Multiple papers were awarded or selected as finalists for best applied paper competitions; Received 2024-2025 Block Center Seed Grant; Collaborative project with Zhigang Peng was funded by NSF.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor at Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Delivered talks at various academic conferences and seminars such as SIAM-NNP, INFORMS DMDA Workshop; Co-organized the INFORMS 2025 Data Challenge Competition.
Background
Research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and operations research, with a particular focus on sequential modeling and uncertainty quantification, human-AI collaboration in decision making, and operations and management in energy systems.
Miscellany
Contact information: Office located at Hamburg Hall 2118H, email shixiangzhu@cmu.edu, phone (412) 268-9083.